Earthly Delights ― Economies and Cultures of Food in Ottoman and Danubian Europe, C. 1500-1900

A group of 17 international experts examines continuities and discontinuities in the culinary cultures of the Ottoman Empire, East-Central Europe and the Balkans from the 17th to the 19th century.

Angela Jianu, Ph.D. (2004, University of York, UK), has taught modern European history at the Universities of Warwick and Oxford. She is the author of A Circle of Friends: Romanian Revolutionaries and Political Exile, 1840-1859 (Brill, 2011). Violeta Barbu, Ph.D. (1997, 2008, University of Bucharest), was Professor of Religious Anthropology and Senior Research Fellow at the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History in Bucharest. She has published widely on the early modern history of Romania and is the editor of Documenta Romaniae Historica (1998-2017, 11 vols.).